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dtw

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Registered: 2004-08-03

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Crazy mouse movement

Somewhere between this AM and this PM my mouse went crazy amd even touching the touchpad or usb mouse sent the cursor zooming out of control around the screen like a mad thing.

I seem to have fixed this by switching to evdev driver and following the wiki guide for static mouse but since then my touchpad won't work, which is disappointing because both _were_ working together.  After some checking I found this page and grabbed this from my X.log:

[~]: cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -A 10 synap
(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
(II) Module synaptics: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
    compiled for 4.2.0, module version = 1.0.0
    Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
    ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.3
(II) LoadModule: "radeon"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.so
(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 4.0.3
    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.8
(II) LoadModule: "ati"
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(II) LoadModule: "synaptics"
(II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
(II) LoadModule: "kbd"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/kbd_drv.so
(II) Module kbd: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
    compiled for 7.0.0, module version = 1.0.1
    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.5
(II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.5.8) for chipsets: ati, ativga
(II) R128: Driver for ATI Rage 128 chipsets:
    ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LE (PCI), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M3 LF (AGP),
    ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 MF (AGP), ATI Rage 128 Mobility M4 ML (AGP),

I seem to be missing the part about:
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.13.4

And the binaries seem to be for XFree!  What's that all about?  Not sure if that is the problem but I thought I'd just "put it out there" and see what bites...

raskolnikov

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From: France

Registered: 2006-01-08

Posts: 100

Re: Crazy mouse movement

I use both the synaptics drivers and an usb mouse with no problem at all... maybe a configuration problem in your xorg.conf ? Here is mine, if it can help.

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pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Crazy mouse movement

Somewhere between this AM and this PM my mouse went crazy amd even touching the touchpad or usb mouse sent the cursor zooming out of control around the screen like a mad thing.

I was just about to post something about this. Let's see if switching to evdev works for me too  8)

dtw

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From: UK

Registered: 2004-08-03

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Re: Crazy mouse movement

What do you think it was?  Here is my pacman.log

[05/12/06 07:41] synchronizing package lists
[05/12/06 07:41] starting full system upgrade
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded exo-svn (21552-1 -> 21592-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] warning: extracting /etc/fstab as /etc/fstab.pacnew
[05/12/06 07:43] warning: extracting /etc/group as /etc/group.pacnew
[05/12/06 07:43] warning: extracting /etc/ld.so.conf as /etc/ld.so.conf.pacnew
[05/12/06 07:43] warning: extracting /etc/passwd as /etc/passwd.pacnew
[05/12/06 07:43] warning: extracting /etc/shadow as /etc/shadow.pacnew
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded filesystem (0.7.1-5 -> 0.7.2-2)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded gzip (1.2.4b-2 -> 1.2.4b-3)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded libxfcegui4-svn (21535-1 -> 21555-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded mkinitrd (1.01-29 -> 1.01-30)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded shared-mime-info-cvs (20060414-1 -> 20060511-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded thunar-svn (21551-1 -> 21593-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfcalendar-svn (21546-1 -> 21594-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfce-mcs-manager-svn (21551-1 -> 21573-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfce-mcs-plugins-svn (21550-1 -> 21572-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfce-utils-svn (21522-1 -> 21561-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfce4-appfinder-svn (21522-1 -> 21564-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfce4-panel-svn (21551-1 -> 21587-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfce4-session-svn (21551-1 -> 21588-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfdesktop-svn (21551-1 -> 21567-1)
[05/12/06 07:43] upgraded xfwm4-svn (21551-1 -> 21604-1)
[05/12/06 07:53] warning: /etc/lftp.conf saved as /etc/lftp.conf.pacsave
[05/12/06 07:53] removed lftp (3.4.6-1)

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Crazy mouse movement

I don't remember when it happened first, but it was some time before the 05/12/06 (I also don't have xfce-svn installed). I didn't really cared that much as it only happened about 1 or 2 times a day, hitting escape it was fine again. It was only today that it started to irritate me as the frequency increased.

It was at least always happening when unmounting my mp3 player, however it also happened sometimes during other desktop use. I've gone through the logs, nothing in it. I really have no idea what was causing it.

postlogic

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Registered: 2005-02-24

Posts: 410

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Re: Crazy mouse movement

I haven't had the same trouble, but I can confirm evdev works nicely along with synaptics and a usb mouse.

pressh

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2005-08-14

Posts: 1,719

Re: Crazy mouse movement

Ah well, using evdev it is still happening here. Any more ideas what is going on ?